Hydrodynamic attractors in ultrarelativistic nuclear collisions

One of the many physical questions that have emerged from studies of heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC concerns the validity of hydrodynamic modelling at the very early stages, when the Quark-Gluon Plasma system produced is still far from isotropy. In this article we review the idea of far-from-equilibrium hydrodynamic attractors as a way to understand how the complexity of initial states of nuclear matter is reduced so that a hydrodynamic description can be effective.

• Publication year

  2023

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  Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics

• Publication date

  2023-03-16

• Fields of study

  Physics

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  DOI 10.1016/j.ppnp.2023.104048arXiv 2303.09414
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